Alalkomenai in Boeotia

First town is mentioned by Homerus: Twain of the goddesses hath Menelaus for helpers, even Argive Hera, and Alalcomenean Athene¹. Pausanias: Alalcomenae is a small village, and it lies at the very foot of a mountain of no great height. Its name, some say, is derived from Alalcomeneus, an aboriginal, by whom Athena was brought up; others declare that Alalcomenia was one of the daughters of Ogygus. At some distance from the village on the level ground has been made a temple of Athena with an ancient image of ivory². and Not far from Alalcomenae is a grove of oaks. Here the trunks of the oaks are the largest in Boeotia³.

See:

1. Homer. The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
2. Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918

Bronverwijzingen

1. ↑Homerus, Ilias IV. 8
2. ↑Pausanias, IX.33.5
3. ↑Pausanias IX.4